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From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Why are new Suns thick Ethernet only
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 22 May 89 01:31:08 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 5, message 8 of 17

In article <3771@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 297, message 5 of 18
>I'd just like to throw in my 2 cents about the thick-vs-thin argument.  As
>I've stated so many times, the thick ethernet connectors just plain suck.
>The cable is too stiff and heavy and the connector is too weak.

  While I was at Interleaf Canada, we stopped using thick ethernet.
Too many critical parts, many of them badly manufactured.  Some badly
designed (or perhaps I should say redesigned (:-)).
  After suffering multiple connector failures, we fixed all the drop
cables.  After lots of tranceiver failures, we started stocking extra
EXTRA tranceivers.  After oxidation problems started showing up in the
taps we sent installation kits (ie, borers) out with the field
engineer (all one of him).

  Finally Jim put his foot down: we don't sell thick ethernets anymore.

--dave c-b